Functional magnetic resonance imaging in rodents: Methodology and application to spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1235-1244

  Ramu, Jaivijay ^a   Bockhorst, Kurt H ^a   Mogatadakala, Kishore V ^a   Narayana, Ponnada A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; fMRI; Spatial normalization; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING; MICROPROCESSOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THALAMUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 33750480849     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21030     Document Type: Article

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